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Latest Fact-Checks In State Budget

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Van Taylor
Van Taylor
stated on March 25, 2015 a press release
I "helped pass what, if enacted, would be the largest tax cut in Texas history through the State Senate."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 5, 2015
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on May 1, 2015 a video
Says he "raised average family income by 50 percent" during his tenure as Arkansas governor.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on April 27, 2015 an interview
Says the recall elections that aimed to remove him and other Republican officials from office "cost tens of millions of dollars to run."
Mostly False
May 4, 2015
Steve Crisafulli
Steve Crisafulli
stated on April 28, 2015 an op-ed in the Tampa Bay Times
"If we choose Obamacare expansion, 600,000 will lose eligibility for their subsidies, of which 257,000 would be forced into Medicaid."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • April 30, 2015
Debbie Dooley
Debbie Dooley
stated on March 31, 2015 a Twitter post
The recently passed transportation funding bill is a billion-dollar tax increase for Georgians.
Mostly True
By April Hunt • April 27, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on April 14, 2015 a Twitter post
"Americans will spend more on taxes in 2015 than on food, clothing and housing combined."
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • April 23, 2015
Joe Morrissey
Joe Morrissey
stated on March 25, 2015 a campaign flier.
"Rosalyn Dance voted against President Obama’s Medicaid expansion."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • April 23, 2015
Richard Corcoran
Richard Corcoran
stated on April 16, 2015 an email to constituents
"Medicaid patients were 97 percent more likely to die than those with private insurance."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • April 22, 2015
Charlie Bethel
Charlie Bethel
stated on April 2, 2015 Senate chamber
Georgia has had the nation’s busiest Court of Appeals for a decade or more.
Half-True
By Nancy Badertscher • April 20, 2015
Elizabeth Roberts
Elizabeth Roberts
stated on March 2, 2015 a presentation to the Reinventing Medicaid Working Group
"More than 30 cents of every state tax dollar goes to Medicaid."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 19, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 7, 2015 an interview with the Texas Tribune
On in-state tuition for unauthorized immigrants.
Half Flip
By W. Gardner Selby • April 15, 2015
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on January 14, 2015 State of State
This year’s state budget and my spending proposal for Fiscal Year 2016 represent an infusion of more than $1 billion in additional money for K-12 education.  
Half-True
By Nancy Badertscher • April 14, 2015
US Uncut
US Uncut
stated on March 31, 2015 a Facebook post
Says Indiana Gov. Mike Pence "provides zero state funding for homeless shelters."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • April 6, 2015
Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats
stated on March 31, 2015 a meme on social media
Despite raising taxes on the wealthy and hiking the minimum wage, Minnesota "is creating jobs at a record pace, unemployment is at a historic low, median income is skyrocketing, and (the) state has a billion-dollar surplus."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 1, 2015
Rick McAllister
Rick McAllister
stated on March 27, 2015 a news report
People buy more items during Georgia’s sales-tax holidays, boosting economic activity.
Half-True
By April Hunt • April 1, 2015
Trebor Banstetter
Trebor Banstetter
stated on March 1, 2015 a newspaper article
 Georgia has one of the nation’s highest jet fuel taxes.  
Mostly True
By Nancy Badertscher • March 31, 2015
Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on March 13, 2015 a television interview
"Rhode Island has the second highest per enrollee (Medicaid) cost of any state in the country, which is 60 percent higher than the national average."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 29, 2015
Peter Barca
Peter Barca
stated on March 12, 2015 a televised interview
"The average faculty member at UW-Madison brings in close to a quarter million dollars a year" in grant money.
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • March 23, 2015
Tyrone Brooks
Tyrone Brooks
stated on January 20, 2015 a statement
State lawmakers are spending taxpayer money for parking that billionaire Arthur Blank could build while paying some state employees so little they are on food stamps.  
Half-True
By Nancy Badertscher • March 23, 2015
Howard Marklein
Howard Marklein
stated on March 3, 2015 a budget hearing
Beer drinking is not allowed in any Illinois state parks.
False
By James B. Nelson • March 20, 2015
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